Stanislaw Szeptycki

Stanislaw Szeptycki (3 November 1867-9 October 1950) was a general of the Polish Army and the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, and the Polish-Soviet War.

Biography
Stanislaw Szeptycki was born on 3 November 1867 in Przylbice, Eastern Galicia, Austria-Hungary to a family of Polish aristocrats, and he became a colonel in the army during World War I. In 1914, he joined the Polish Legion, and he commanded the legion from November 1916 to April 1917. Until February 1918, he served as the Austrian governor of Lublin, and he joined the Polish Army when Poland gained its independence after the Russian Revolution. During the Polish-Soviet War, he commanded the Polish forces on the northeastern front of the war, and Szeptycki would later oppose Jozef Pilsudski's establishment of a dictatorship. Pilsudski refused to accept Szeptycki's duel challenge after Szeptycki believed that Pilsudski had slighted him, and Szeptycki headed the Polish Red Cross from 1945 to 1950. He died in Korczyna, Polish People's Republic in 1950.